Rail-chair



(No Model.)

M. MALONEY.

RAIL CHAIR.

, Patented $1113 4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL MALONEY, OF IRONTON, OHIO.

RAIL-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,589, dated July 4,1893.

Application filed April 30, 1892. Serial No. 431,299- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, MICHAEL MALONEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ironton, in the county of Lawrence and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Rail- (Jhair,of which the following isaspecification.

The inventionrelates to improvements in railway rail chairs.

The object of the present invention is to simplifyand improve theconstruction of railway rail chairs, and to provide one which willsecurely hold rails in their proper position and prevent them spreading,sagging or canting and which will prevent a rail cutting into across-tie, and thereby greatly increase the durability of the latter.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figure l is a perspective View of a rail chairconstructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to arail. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken longitudinally of therail chair. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a rail chair detached.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a railway rail chair preferably constructed of rolledmetal, and composed of a base-plate2, which is secured by spikes 3 and 4to a cross-tie 5, and vertical bracing flanges 6 rising from the outerend of the base-plate and arranged at the sides thereof and having theirouter edges inclined. The inner edges of the vertical flanges 6 conformto the configuration of a rail 7, and have recesses 8 and 9 adapted toreceive the bottom flange and the head of the rail, the portion betweenthe recesses 8 and 9 fitting against the web of the rail. The spikes 3are arranged between the vertical bracing flanges and pass throughsuitable openings in the base-plate; and the spikes 4 are arranged atthe other end of the base plate on the opposite side of the rail andengage the bottom flange at that side of the rail and secure the latterin the recesses of the inner edges of the vertical flanges, whereby therail is securely fastened in place. The base plate forms a broad bearingfor the rail which is thereby prevented from sagging and canting, andthe chair effectually prevents any spreading.

It will be seen that the railway rail chair is simple and inexpensive inconstruction, and easy to manufacture, that it effects a great saving ofmetal, and that it is capable of holding a rail in proper position andpreventing the same canting, sagging, or embedding itself in a tie anddestroying the latter.

The rail chairis applicable to frogs, switches, curves, and analogoususes, and it greatly assists in the preservation of a rail bymaintaining it in proper position and thereby in a measure preventing itbeing splintered and mashed by the wheels of a train.

What I claim is As a new article of manufacture, a rail chair having abase-plate 2 provided with suitable spike openings, and integralvertically-disposed flanges, 6, flush with the side edges of thebase-plate, extending inwardly from one end of the same and terminatingat a point adjacent to the center of its length, the outer edges of saidflanges being beveled or inclined and the inner edges thereof beingprovided with upper notches,8, to receive the tread, under-cut lowernotches, 9,to receive the flange, the lower sides of such notches beingin the plane of the upper surface of the base-plate, and a verticalintermediate portion to bear against the web of the rail, substantiallyas specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL MALONEY.

Witnesses:

EVAN T. WILLIAMS, JOHN OoMBs.

